Let me just leave it here...

With Gentoo you get to choose SystemD or no SystemD ;)

And for the things that aren't in official portage nor one of 100s of other repositories - you basically just drop an ebuild file (that LLM can do for you ) into your own local repo.

There's already tooling for using say .deb or golang packages - but still having them installed as proper Gentoo/portage ones.

PS. Tek sada videh korisničko

Gentoo has pre built binaries for years now - you can be totally lazy about that ...

And still benefit from packages/system being smaller/faster because they are not built to cater for all possibilities.

And you can still override options (use flags) and compile some things exactly as you want/need them.

It is super nice to be able to mostly use binary packages but build from source anytime you want different options:)

oh thats nice. maybe if i ever feeling rebuilding i'll look into it again.

but truly, I've been using this install since 33... and am on 44 atm. never have i has such a slick trouble free experience. I've had one nvidia related issue once... I also had to rebuild a mirror once because i wanted to update more than i wanted ZFS, and they were updating the kernel faster than the zfs package was updating. not a big deal. I've moved on happily.

And at the same time, at least for last few years - you can also get the same (same but different) experience/convenience of having binaries available.

The Gentoo profiles mentioned in another comment is what still allows the system to have packages compiled with a consistent subset of things.

I don't see how that particular line of thinking applies when: 1) They continue to have a free version for Windows 2) They continue to have a version for Linux

I just can't see that cost of having a free Linux version (on top having a paid Linux version) is big?

I literally explained the thinking that the free builds on Linux aren't worth it. If you've ever shipped production software, you'd know this. Just because there's a free build available for Windows doesn't mean it costs the company $0 to release the free build. It's a lot of extra time and QA for each variant of a release. There might be many differences between the Windows and Linux builds, such as the Linux builds require proprietary 3rd party code with royalties, and they chose not to eat that cost.

There's no bait and switch. It's just people expecting things for free, as always, when this was never an open source project.

> It's a lot of extra time and QA for each variant of a release.

In Vivado, it's the same release for the free and expensive builds on both Linux and Windows. It's just a question of the installed license file/license limits.

> such as the Linux builds require proprietary 3rd party code with royalties, and they chose not to eat that cost.

This seems unlikely for a multitude of reasons.

This ignores that their revenue comes from selling chips. The software enables that. No software, no chip sales. This can only have a negative impact on their sales.

Xilinx is/was an FPGA company until AMD bought them. Their primary revenue stream is selling chips. This is the equivalent of going back to the days of paid C/C++ compilers (anybody else remember that?).

Again that reasoning falls apart because they offer free Windows version. So basically those academic/small companies are incentivised to switch to Windows (or use Wine/Proton) to use this software?

And that's aside the fact that if support cases are the actual issue - they could (and probably already do that) just not allow free users to open/submit bug/support cases.

I've seen/noticed this simply from being on a low carb (aka KETO) diet.

Besides AI grossly over/under estimating values even when you give it a photo of the packaging with nutritional table and tell it weight you used.

The other thing that surprised me, at least until I read up on how LLMs are actually working. Was how it would confidently BS you for your daily total.

Even when the chat/messages are just "Ate ABC with XYZ values, what's my daily total?"

While I guess new chat for each day, or some MCP for storing and retrieval of record/meals would've helped with those daily totals.

The total would still be wrong - unless you explicitly specified each of the values you need to track (e.g. carbs, fat, protein, kcal) to be put into records.

At which point of course - you're not really using AI/LLM but basically an CRUD application.

How/what are you basing your "sweets/desert impacts my sleep more than a drink or two" on?

I was waking up an hour or more before the alarm (so waking up <=6AM with 7AM alarm). And I thought my sleep was good - after all Fitbit sleep score was 80-85.

Then after stopping alcohol I started sleeping longer. Specifically waking up later, at least for the first few weeks.

Seemingly alcohol was causing earlier waking due to spiking cortisol too early.

While waking-up time took a few weeks to recalibrate. Already 2-3 days after stopping alcohol - Fitbit was showing clear improvements in actual sleep quality metrics - HRV was increasing and RHR/BR were decreasing.

And now my "bad nights" have Fitbit sleep score of ~85, and it's regularly 90+.

Lab results are night and day - e.g. CRP was 20 (>5 signals inflammation), just few weeks after stopping alcohol it was ~10 while I was having cold/fever, and now it's <1.

The biggest/hardest problem for me was that after stopping alcohol, my sweets intake increased, especially in the evening. I was doing almost no carbs during the day, and then in the evening ... I guess brain was lacking some easy dopamine that it would previously get from alcohol... I would crave sweets, ice cream ...etc.

It took almost 3 months to be able to stick with strict keto diet. I'm finally doing <=20 gram of carbs because from past experience - any higher and I have a hard time limiting carbs to say just 50 (which would still be low carb/keto).

It's based on the sleep tracking data my fitness watch gives me, but also just based on how I rested I feel the next day, since I know there's limitations to the data quality a watch can give you.

I have noticed the early waking thing with alcohol, but for me that's never really an issue after a drink or two - only at higher consumption levels do I really have that problem (along with the bad dreams/nightmares that many have after drinking).

One other thing I've realized while experimenting with this is that I tend to be sleep better when I'm cooler - so anything that would raise my body temperature has a huge negative impact on sleep quality. This could be large amounts of alcohol, or it could be lots of sugar in the evenings, or a salty/starchy meal late in the day, etc. This seems to be a more important variable than anything else I've observed.

Since it was Dutch news and Dutch ship - I'm betting they used ~€5 Bluetooth tracker available in Action stores.

Not sure how different it works from Apple/Samsung trackers. But my Motorola Android phone can set it up, and phones out and about are reporting where it is.

In The Netherlands I wouldn't be able to login to any government or adjecent websites (e.g. portal of my local health center/GP, health insurance, retirement/pension insurance) without a smart phone running DigiD app for 2FA.

The non-EU Serbia has the equivalent app, but also you might be able to get individual/personal e-certificate (for logging into e-government or signing e-documents) added into smart card chip of your ID. But in practice it seems thats only used for business purposes, like CEO/Accountants/etc to sign/submit business records/taxes.

In Belgium the eID software runs on GNU/Linux, so I can log in to government websites using my ID card and a card reader. In my experience it even works better on GNU/Linux than on MS Windows.

It's one of the only things that Belgium does right.

The DigiD app isn't required. You can log-in with DigiD using SMS 2FA. This is what I currently do, because I don't want to install closed-source software on my device.

DigiD used to work fine without an app. I think it still does, because I have to explicitly select using the app to log in.

Dumb phone works as well with sms verification.

I used to work for a GSM messaging gateway/SMSC. And seeing first hand how most of those SMS messages (2FA, password reset, bank transaction/balance ...etc) are usually routed (sure over SSL but stored/forwarded as unencrypted GSM packets) through several different companies around the world - before reaching your mobile operator ...

And on top of that you add stuff like sim cloning, and all the other things that one gets by having a direct SS7 connection (there were blog posts/YouTube videos - IIRC Linus Tech Tips calls/SMS got routed to Australia).

Using SMS for 2FA or anything similar is my last resort.

Granted I stopped working there 15+ years ago - but I imagine that the basic economy reasoning where it's impractical for every mobile operator to have a direct peering contract with every other operator in the world - is still the same.

And messages originating from non mobile users/operators (like DigiD 2FA) always start at one of these messaging gateways/SMSCs (e.g. InfoBip.com), and often go through a few different ones before reaching your mobile operator.

I didn't come across those narrow seats when we looked into solution for fitting two kids and an adult (grandma) in the back row.

So we went for (especially in Europe) rather limited subset of cars where all 3 of the 2nd row seats are proper sized, with Isofix on each of them.

Usually same makes/models that offer the option of additional 2 seats in the 3rd row.